The ISSF currently comprises five antennas and is managed by the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO). The fact that the site is located on permafrost places special demands on ...

crucial questions are how much permafrost will thaw and how much carbon will that release into the atmosphere? It's a question complicated by the many processes that take place in the carbon cycle.

a permafrost expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, had for years watched the active layer freeze completely by mid-January at some 180 research sites in Alaska. But as those places also ...

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...

Many peatlands have been frozen over thousands of years in permafrost with "nearly 20% of the permafrost areas, store[ing] nearly 50% of soil carbon of the permafrost ecosystem, equal to nearly 10 ...

If you want to fully understand risk and prepare for hazards, you need to have the full picture Chandi Witharana (left) and ...

"When the temperature of permafrost starts to increase, piles start to shift out of place, and that's what we call bearing capacity loss, or decrease in bearing capacity. That was the main hazard ...

In places with steep glacial landscapes, rapidly moving ice sometimes scours the underlying bedrock, further degrading permafrost. The rock-ice avalanche in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, in February 2021 ...